List of Digital Collections

Interviews (available as audio files and transcriptions), mostly conducted in the late 1970s, that document the many aspects of life in Louisville, particularly as experienced by African Americans. (more info)

308 photographs from the Appalachian, Bluegrass, and Western portions of Kentucky at the turn of the 20th century, and 69 views of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis, Missouri, 1904). (more info)

327 images of members and friends of the Furnas family of Louisville, Kentucky, in the early 1900s, including travels west to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri and as far as Spokane, Washington. (more info)

Guest Book volumes with more than 900 signatures from visitors to the University of Louisville School of Music, including guest artists, composers, lecturers, and dignitaries. Indices and an annotated list accompany the signature pages. (more info)

3815 images published in the Louisville Herald-Post newspaper (1925-1936) of people; business and industry; government; homes; places of worship; community organizations; parks; sports; and transportation in and around Louisville, Kentucky. (more info)

117 catalogs from the Hite exhibition series (University of Louisville), dating from 1947 - 1978 and covering painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and architecture and city planning from many countries and time periods, including local, student and faculty work. (more info)

11 oral histories recorded in 2012 for a Louisville Metro Human Relations Commission publication by the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research and Metropolitan Housing Coalition. (more info)

Images relating to Louisville, Kentucky, and environs from various small collections in the University of Louisville Libraries' special collections and archives. Currently includes the A.W. Terhune Collection and the Joseph & Joseph Collection. (more info)

210 images captured by French soldier André Jeunet (1896-1979) during World War I, including pictures of soldiers and civilians in northeastern France in 1915-1917 and the Balkans in 1917-1918. (more info)

Images of people and places associated with the Louisville General Hospital School of Nursing, University of Louisville School of Dentistry, and University of Louisville School of Medicine in the late 19th and 20th centuries, along with early medical school catalogs. (more info)

Rare volumes of early Kentucky law books featuring legal enactments relating to Kentucky from its beginning as a district of Virginia, the debates of the convention that drafted Kentucky's third constitution, and portraits of the leading legal practitioners and statesmen of 19th-century Kentucky. (more info)

Album of photographs showing commerical businesses--particularly groceries and saloons--in Louisville, Kentucky in the early decades of the twentieth century, usually accompanied by information about property values, tenants, and rental amounts. (more info)

Louisville native and amateur photographer Claude C. Matlack (1878-1944) captured on film the formative years of Oneida Baptist Institute, a settlement school built by feuding mountaineers. (more info)

The Romano L. Mazzoli Oral History Collection documents the life and political career of Congressman Romano (Ron) Mazzoli, an Italian-American native of Louisville, Kentucky who represented Kentucky's Third Congressional District for 24 years (1971-1995). (more info)

Images documenting the construction of sewer lines, drainage work, and floodwall protection projects throughout Louisville in the early twentieth century through the beginning of World War II. (more info)

88 images and four manuscripts relating to the U.S. military, with a particular focus on the Civil War era, collected by West Point alumnus, engineer, and Civil War veteran Orlando Metcalfe Poe (1832-1895). (more info)